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Assurances and arm twisting. im told that even this morning, president trump, vice president pence, on the phone to on the fence members, trying to get them across the line. one source saying the president would tell members how well he did in their state and why it would be effective to vote with him on this, as the vice president ran through details. dont look past what senator mitch mcconnell was doing, behind the scenes, making the promises to his members, that they would get opportunities t...

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Senator joe man chins take on this conversation and the presidents message to the boyscouts in his home state of west virginia and also the president is tweeting like its saturday morning upping his attacks on his own. tomorrow, should jeff sessions resign or should he force the president to fire him? thats the question we have been asking this morning and debating. as we go to break, white house press secretary sarah huckaby sanders was asked moments ago about the situation between the presiden...

As to why they would want to put a hold on this and not allow for this legislation to go through? >> what they do not believe in that legislation as it is written peered to go to a piece of legislation they would agree to, it would require amendments in a process that they have to . that is their argument. not going to proceed. do i think theyll get these final two coat votes? yes. in the next minute, youll see john mccain and ron johnson vote yea to proceed. i cannot tell you that 100%. once th...

It because there hasnt been a case like this before, eboni, has there? its always been about money. theyve never looked at in terms of a conversation. >> eboni: i dont know if we have never seen it, kat, certainly not -- the trial will determine it. >> eric: when the meeting took place, there was nothing of value exchanged. >> kat: the intention matters. >> eric: if i intend to speed, yet, i still do the speed limit and i think -- >> kat: thats not even close to the same thing. not even close. >...

It because there hasnt been a case like this before, eboni, has there? its always been about money. theyve never looked at in terms of a conversation. >> eboni: i dont know if we have never seen it, kat, certainly not -- the trial will determine it. >> eric: when the meeting took place, there was nothing of value exchanged. >> kat: the intention matters. >> eric: if i intend to speed, yet, i still do the speed limit and i think -- >> kat: thats not even close to the same thing. not even close. >...

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Everything, and i get you have a contract, but what interests you about our side of the fence? >> look. when i first got here, i invested heavily into going into, no, and i realized that republicans were doing a very poor job of communicate, and i have always felt, like, hey. if nobody else is going to go out and spend the three minutes explaining our position, ill go ahead and do it. so i have always felt like there is a great opportunity to talk to millions of people at a time and truly make a...

Boorish behavior? it is shocking to me. >> well, yeah. don, the minute we went through the looking glass on debating -- when he talked about sexual assault on the "access hollywood" bus and allegedly down to locker room talk, we stepped through the looking glass. >> i want to switch gears because i want to talk about this on your show, it is amazing, your show this weekend. "united shades of america." you head to san francisco chinatown to explore the cultural aspects of chinese americans. >> th...